Re: [Phpslash-devel] SF Issues
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From: Joe S. <jo...@be...> - 2001-11-15 16:03:20
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I've been mirroring the nightly tarballs some also. There is more to the story also. phpGroupWare is now a GNU project. So it would be natural for them to be hosted on GNU servers. Savannah development is announced to have been moved to phpGroupWare. They couldn't or wouldn't extend the 2.0 sf codebase to their needs. phpGroupWare already has most all the parts in place to perform the same functions as the SF software. I've been using debian-sf for some local project management. Mixed thoughts on it's use. In case of SF disappearing, the tracker db on sf currently has no way to be backed up and mirrored by users. So, that's the big gotcha right now. After the website stuff settles down, it should just be checked in the cvs under a different tree. This is how the savannah.gnu.org projects are setup. mysqldump to cvs daily as well. This would simplify the backup. Good discussion. Joe On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:11:50AM -0500, nathan r. hruby wrote: > In case y'all haven't noticed, phpGroupWare has decided to leave > SourceForge for GNU's alternative offering, Savannah. In no way shape or > form am I suggesting we move again; however, their statement and the > recent FSFEurope article (and VA's decsion to go non-Free with the > SourceForge codebase) have raised a few concerns with me, enough to make > me nervous becasue I feel unprotected and the most likely method of SF > shutting down will be for them to pull the plug one day with little or no > warning. Yes, I realize I'm being a pessimist and nay-sayer but I doubt > that VA Systems folk will want to drag out the issue if closing is a > neccissity, as it'll just piss off a lot of people. this is one of those > things where the quicker and cleaner you can do it, the better.. > > I think it might be prudent to have an emergency action plan in case VA > does fold or attempts something "undue." Currently, my thought is to > simply add into the Doc's, FAQ, README, and website an alternate URL is > case of SourceForge meltdown. In addtion I'll be writing a script to > download the nightly CVS tarball to a secure location, I'd like it if > other could do something similar, to increase the chances of having a copy > of CVS... perhaps the script will also grab the website and mysql > databases the trackers if possible but I dunno.. > > What say you? > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > nathan hruby / digital statement > na...@ds... > http://www.dstatement.com/ > > Public GPG key can be found at: > http://www.dstatement.com/nathan-gpg-key.txt > ED54 9A5E 132D BD01 9103 EEF3 E1B9 4738 EC90 801B > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > |